Rape and Incest....Is Abortion Ever Okay?(Important legal perspective midway)

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[CounterCounterCulture]

If you could kill Ted Bundy's kid, how does that make you any better than Ted Bundy?

[stuartcr]

Probably all those that do or do not support anything, are already living too.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Something I was thinking about. What if it can be determined the baby will be born with severe genetic disorder / deformities..say blind, missing limbs, etc ?

[LWalk18]

But now a rapist's intrusion can be fixed with the morning after pill and doesn't need to wait til the last month.

Look up the threads on the "morning after pill". Many believe that it can cause a very early abortion by causing the fertilized egg to fail to implant in the uterine lining. SD, however, does not count the morning after pill as an abortion for the purpose of their ban.

[pissant]

Hey. It's a cruel world sometimes. If a woman is not locked in a guarded house, there will always be the potential for some cretin to cause her harm. Yes, there are many ways to protect yourself but nothing is foolproof.

That same cruel world makes me lose no sleep when an innocent relative of Osama is in the house when we incinerate him with a hellfire missile.

That same cruel world causes some of our most upstanding men to be lost to friendly fire.

That same cruel world tells me that God does not want my loved ones impregnated by or giving birth to a child from the disgusting, inferior genes of a sick rapist. If He is telling you something different, so be it.

[paul51]

A gang breaks into your house. Rapes your wife and three daughters. Against all odds, they all become pregnant. What do you do? If you want to talk in absolutes, let's do it.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

More tripe from the pro-rape lobby.

[pissant]

Because ol Ted has no right, legal, moral, or otherwise to create that child in the first place. And I have no obligation legal, moral or otherwise to let it live.

[microgood]

Honesty requires us to say that it is unjust that a woman carry to term a child conceived through rape, but that it is a far greater injustice to kill the child. This is a rare situation in which injustice cannot be avoided; the best thing that can be done is to reduce it.The first injustice lasts for nine months of a life that can be relieved, both psychologically and financially. The second injustice ends a life, and there is no remedy for that.

The author of this obviously does not know how traumatic a rape can be. The article should be honest and admit that in some cases, forcing a rape victim to have a child is not saving a life but swapping one life for another. I have seen this happen in real life.

[Ace of Spades]

I don't have any numbers. But if it accounts for 1% of all abortions, we can assume that it's fairly rare, but happens enough to be significant.

[pissant]

Crappy situation, through and through.

[stuartcr]

Some may think it's murder, but it's OK.

[gidget7]

"Studies and statistics consistently show that pregnancies due to rape and incest are rare. According to Guttmacher that 1% due to rape and incest is 14,000 babies per year. Therefore, abortion is not mainly used as a last resort."


Ok for one thing, these two instances should never be put into the same category. Rape is one category, incest another. However, both should leave the options to either adoption, or raising the child.

Anytime, any intervention in a womens natural biological functions are interrupted, prevented from occurring, or stopped unnaturally, there are far reaching medical and psychological problems.

Even these so called plan B (a term we should NEVER use) the morning after pill is dangerous. The pills, implants and such that prevent menstruation for 6 months or a year, are extremely dangerous for women's health. Abortion is no different.

Consider all the hormones that go into a pregnancy, the very ones the body activates once pregnancy begins. For these hormones to be cut off from the condition that activated them, is seriously dangerous for the health of the women.Medically and psychologically. Hormones out of whack cause all sorts of problems. These issues are separate from the risks entailed in any medical procedure.

[verity]

"Is Abortion Ever Okay? "

From a moral perspective no; from a legal perspective yes.

[cpforlife.org]

Please elaborate.

[stuartcr]

It means that, like most everything, it is relative.

[coop71]

Even these so called plan B (a term we should NEVER use) the morning after pill is dangerous. The pills, implants and such that prevent menstruation for 6 months or a year, are extremely dangerous for women's health. Abortion is no different.

Could you please provide us some data regarding your statement on the dangers of Plan B? Also, what pill or implant that prevents menstruation for 6 months to a year are you referring to? I'm familiar with the "3-month" plan ("Seasonale" is the brand name), which prevents menstruation for 3 months, but nothing more. However, note that any mono-phasal birth control, if taken daily, does the same thing as the commercial brand of the 3-month pill. Thanks in advance.

[cpforlife.org]

I disagree.

Matters of life and death should never fall into the abyss of relativism.

[gidget7]

I do not, unfortunately, have links to articles. Google could find them for you however.

[Melas]

Amen brother, and I'm right behind you and well armed.